Tag: talks

None of the ideas I’m about to share with you came from any self-help book. (Ok, maybe a couple). But it’s only through being immersed in the beautiful strangeness of life that these lessons can be felt, seen, and used to see the truth of them. Funnily, none of these are ‘...

Wind and solar energy suffer from intermittency; there can be large variations in the energy capacity when the sun does not shine or the wind does not blow. Incorporation of battery storage in the system can mitigate the problem. Another approach is for an “action-demand” response to low...

There’s a running joke in this industry that marketing brains never truly shut off. Guilty as charged — we’re a curious bunch, always mentally bookmarking aha! moments during meditative trail runs or quiet moments on the river. As we head into the final quarter of the ...

Two years after becoming enthralled with the native plant movement, I discovered that the neighborhood I live in is the core of my local native plant gardening community. Here in Ann Arbor, we have an all-volunteer organization called “Seeds to Community” (S2C) that teaches people how...

I’m a socially conscious entrepreneur, motivational speaker, life coach, and disability advocate & inclusion ambassador. But out of all these work tags, I’m a fighter and survivor because I have been surviving a neurological condition called Cerebellar Ataxia Conqueror over the last ...

Trigger Warning: Talk of childhood sexual assault I’m going to rant. So be prepared. I am a non-passing trans woman, or trans femme. I have been on HRT for 2 years. I also have social anxiety, especially when going out dressed feminine. I know people don’t really see me as my true ...

TED Talks are awesome. They are intellectually stimulating and wildly entertaining. They’re a stage where academics, scientists, boffins and philosophers shine a light on any “ideas worth spreading” and give them to the world… for free. Here are five TED Talks that are bo...

What I propose is this. Should this heinous Supreme Court draft attacking Roe actually come to pass, women ought to harness the power of the courts to exact real pain. Since Alito and his compatriots seated on the Supreme Court are making the case to deny women full personhood in deference to pri...

Information Technology is now being developed in a pace which is almost unbelievable. This is of course not always visible in the shape of computers, but also in the form of embedded technology, for example, in cars, home assistants, phones and so on. Much of this development is currently either dri...